The City Planning Commission met on June 10, 2025, at 1:41 PM in Council Chambers to consider zoning and subdivision items. The meeting began with roll call and unanimous adoption of the May 27, 2025, minutes. All agenda items were approved, including a conditional use for a warehouse, an expansion of the National WWII Museum planned development, an extension for a subdivision, a Tulane University resubdivision, and subdivision ratifications.
No, that's not that sounds like you're going to hear you. Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming to today's city planning commission meeting. We're going to get started. I appreciate that. But yeah, I'm not good. First. I look forward to that. Okay. So good afternoon, everyone. We're going to go ahead and get started. Uh it's now one forty one. And we will start first with a calling of role, followed by the reading of the formal public hearing rules and our regular business. So, Commissioner Johnson. Commissioner Lund. Commissioner Whitry. Commissioner Jordan here. Commissioner Steve. Here. Commissioner Stewart. Okay. So the City Planning Commission has established certain rules governing the procedures to be followed at public hearings. Before speaking, each person shall give their name, address, and state whom he or she is representing. Proponents for the proposal will speak first for a period of ten minutes total. Each speaker shall be allowed a maximum of two minutes. No material, including written matter, photographs, maps, or other items will be accepted by the commission or its staff at any time during this public hearing. This procedure shall be followed except at such a time when the presiding officer shall, with the approval of the commission members present, extend such time. And now we will begin with the adoption of meeting minutes from our May 27th meeting. Commissioner Whittry will adopt the May 27th meeting minutes. Okay, so we have a motion for adoption from Commissioner Whitry, seconded by Commissioner Johnson. If there's no further discussion, we will vote our machines. Okay, meeting minutes have been adopted. The first item of business is zoning docket item 02925. This is an application affecting a property at uh 1018, 1020 Arado Street in the Lower Garden District. Uh it's an industrial style building that uh was previously a warehouse, then used as uh a brewery, and has since been vacant and is now uh up for occupancy. Um because it had not been used as a rest as a warehouse most recently, it lost its non-conforming warehouse condition. This is in a mixed use district where warehouses are permitted only through the conditional use process, and so for it to be re-established as a warehouse, it requires conditional use approval. Uh no changes to the site, um, just reoccupancy in a way that it was originally intended for. Uh, and so the staff finds it to be appropriate and recommends approval with one proviso. Thank you. Uh, we have a common card representing the advocate, Mr. Ron Lazel. Uh good afternoon, Commissioners. Ryan Lazo one south 1000 South Norman C. Francis. Again, uh Stephen stated, this is just putting a an existing warehouse back into commerce. That's it. I would like to add on to here, I am very thankful for the study that CPC is doing right now. I'm trying to figure out where items that should be a permitted use instead of a conditional use. An existing warehouse should not have to go through a conditional use.